Hoods

French translation: freinez

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English term or phrase:Hoods
French translation:freinez
Entered by: NikkoTh

09:34 Jul 14, 2015
English to French translations [PRO]
Sports / Fitness / Recreation
English term or phrase: Hoods
On the Hoods:
London's Cobbles
As the legendary Belgian DS Kenny Van Vlaminck once observed:
“There are two types of cobbles: the big cobbles and the small cobbles.
And the grippy cobbles and the slippy cobbles.”
We might add a fifth type to Van Vlaminck’s somewhat wonky taxonomy:
London cobbles, which are both big and small, and grippy and slippy, and increasingly popular.
Since the capital caught a dose of the bike bug, a certain Flandrian fetishism has crept into the collective psyche that goes beyond an affection for Trappist beer, woollen jerseys and occluded machismo: for one, the annual London Classic ride (thelondonclassic.org) invites riders on a 36.6 mile loop through the city’s bumpiest streets from Crystal Palace into the West End, far out east into Wapping, and back home again, encompassing a total of 22 sections of filling-dislodging pavé.
NikkoTh
freinez
Explanation:
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cobbles = pavés

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On the Hoods = freinez
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GILOU
France
Local time: 11:11
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Summary of answers provided
5 +1les mains sur les freins
FX Fraipont (X)
5freinez
GILOU
3 +1les mains sur les cocottes de freins
florence metzger


  

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hoods
les mains sur les freins


Explanation:
"On the hoods", "Hoods"

Hands on the brake hoods. The brake hood is that rubbery thing that the brake lever comes out of and on a modern road bike likely also contains the shifter. There's different ways to put your hands on the hoods, I'm showing two I use."
http://bicycles.stackexchange.com/questions/8852/what-are-th...

FX Fraipont (X)
Belgium
Local time: 11:11
Native speaker of: Native in FrenchFrench
PRO pts in category: 567

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agree  Jean-Christophe Duc
1 day 18 hrs
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5 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 5/5
hoods
freinez


Explanation:
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Note added at 6 minutes (2015-07-14 09:40:42 GMT)
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cobbles = pavés

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Note added at 6 minutes (2015-07-14 09:40:59 GMT)
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On the Hoods = freinez

GILOU
France
Local time: 11:11
Native speaker of: French
PRO pts in category: 589
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31 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 3/5Answerer confidence 3/5 peer agreement (net): +1
hoods
les mains sur les cocottes de freins


Explanation:
une suggestion...

florence metzger
Local time: 11:11
Native speaker of: Native in FrenchFrench
PRO pts in category: 265

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  Jocelyne Cuenin: C'est drôle, on pourrait le combiner avec avoir les chocottes !
1 hr
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